Well, I’m not a dev and did that just for SideQuest access, so it’s easy enough… but yeah, for those wishing (near-)total anonymity, I see what you mean…

Right, so the issue is how many devs will stay motivated to keep developing knowing that staying unregistered may significantly reduce users’ draw…

But we’re on Lemmy…

What? You don’t have to be atheist to be against organized religions.

But for such major FOSS development, we usually have to throw money at them in advance, which is the problem.

No, ADB will still allow installation of anonymous apps. All this hullabaloo is talking about non-ADB installation.

Wait… what? Tell us more details…

The what?

I don’t know; I have neither the interest nor time to run one, and I have seen at least one go down recently (Lemmy.one) partly because of how complicated the whole system actually is. Individual enthusiasts may not have the resources to keep up against the long-term might of Meta, Reddit, etc. if they develop dedicated attack teams.

Hope springs eternal, though.

I await the week of dreadful news when they start using their immense wealth to take down instances via DDoS attacks, one by one…

Oh, yeah, absolutely. Mobile apps should only ever be used for check-scanning or for features that the online banking simply doesn’t allow (which would be messed up of the bank to do); same with mobile wallets.

I’m in the process of moving banking and payment off my phone

Go on… How are you doing so?

That’s exactly what they’re hoping for, and why we need to keep pouring out our outcry to reach them and hope they become more tech-literate.

Wait, what?

Fascinating, I never thought that kind of thing could exist… Does the group use VRChat?

You must be part of the great !stopdrinking@lemmy.world crowd.

Try sunflower seed butter and honey!

Not if you eat it right away!

Rather, the overarching idea in Nosedive is that the flawed system pushes people to misbehave in terrible ways; it encourages you to step back, zoom out, and be more in horror at the whole thing from the start to end, rather than just at the protagonist’s actions. Same with the episode White Bear, etc.

Man, I wish I could just skip S1, then. If I can’t then I may never see it as there is so much else out there!